"If people want to get stoned and trip out on acid or Jesus, that's their business. But if those things don't work, I've got something that will: love, appreciation and sincerity."
Can a performer who talks like that survive for even a minute in today's pop-music miasma of drugs, decadence and dowdy religiosity? If he is Singer-Composer John Denver, 29, the answer is yes. The possessor of long blond hair and a mellifluous, if reedy, tenor voice, the wearer of gold-rimmed glasses and neatly pressed shirts, Denver is the Tom Sawyer of rockĀand he has acquired a vast following of Becky Thatchers...